Paper Kite 2025

Thorne & Daughters, teknisk ark/fact sheet (thorneanddaughters.com – linket fra thorneanddaughters.com, hentet 2026-10-18): 2025 Thorne & Daughters Paper Kite – område: Swartland; druer: Sémillon, Sémillon Gris; alkohol 13.4%. Producentens noter (engelsk): About the wine: THE W INE 2025 was a picture-perfect season that one doesn’t get to experience all that often and it was very satisfying being able to ripen this vineyard fully as we are normally being pushed to pick by the heat. Semillon really benefits from a slow ripening and we were able to pick the Kweperfontein vineyard about a week later than usual. I love this old clonal material of Semillon. It gives us wines that are more about texture and depth, and less about primary fruit aromatics. Our vinifications don’t follow a recipe but rather a mantra of doing as little as we possibly can while still delivering pristine and balanced wines. The grapes are whole-bunch pressed in our old Vaslin press and there are no additions of sulphur dioxide made on the juice. A rough settling follows pressing into a mix of new 500L Austrian barrels and smaller old oak barrels after which the wines undergo natural alcoholic and malolactic fermentation. Going to barrel with cloudier, phenolic juice gives us a great foundation for the textural elements that will develop in the wine. Semillon has a tendency to become very reductive during maturation so we generally do some racking at the end of fermentation to leave the heaviest lees behind, and have begun to work with a short maturation time in our large, new Austrian oak barrels to balance this tendency. We add some SO2 late in the winter, and then again at bottling, keeping the level of sulphur dioxide very low in the wine. Th o r n e & D a u g h t e r s hello@thorneanddaughters.com • www.thorneanddaughters.com Raising our handcrafted wines along with our two Daughters